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Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

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297 points rntn | 4 comments | 18 Jul 25 17:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.908s | source
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rockemsockem ◴[18 Jul 25 18:41 UTC] No.44608323[source]▶
I'm surprised that most of the comments here are siding with Europe blindly?

Am I the only one who assumes by default that European regulation will be heavy-handed and ill conceived?

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xandrius ◴[18 Jul 25 18:47 UTC] No.44608370[source]▶
If I've got to side blindly with any entity it is definitely not going to be Meta. That's all there is.
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rockemsockem ◴[18 Jul 25 19:51 UTC] No.44609058[source]▶
I mean, ideally no one would side blindly at all :D
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js4ever ◴[18 Jul 25 22:42 UTC] No.44610602[source]▶
That's the issue with people's from a certain side of politics, they don't vote for something they always side / vote against something or someone ... Blindly. It's like pure hate going over reason. But it's ok they are the 'good' ones so they are always right and don't really need to think
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amelius ◴[18 Jul 25 23:42 UTC] No.44611082[source]▶
Sometimes people are just too lazy to read an article. If you just gave one argument in favor of Meta, then perhaps that could have started a useful conversation.
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bdangubic ◴[18 Jul 25 23:46 UTC] No.44611104[source]▶
Perhaps… if a sane person could find anything in favor of one of the most Evil corporations in the history of mankind…
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krapp ◴[18 Jul 25 23:54 UTC] No.44611158[source]▶
>if a sane person could find anything in favor of one of the most Evil corporations in the history of mankind.

You need some perspective - Meta wouldn't even crack the top 100 in terms of evil:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Congo_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont#Controversies_and_crime...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquita

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bdangubic ◴[19 Jul 25 00:44 UTC] No.44611473[source]▶
this alone is worse than all of what you listed combined

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/meta-all...

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1. krapp ◴[19 Jul 25 01:01 UTC] No.44611562[source]▶
No... making teenagers feel depressed sometimes is not in fact worse than facilitating the Holocaust, using human limbs as currency, enslaving half the world and dousing the earth with poisons combined.
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2. bdangubic ◴[19 Jul 25 01:23 UTC] No.44611681[source]▶
it is when you consider number of people affected
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3. krapp ◴[19 Jul 25 01:54 UTC] No.44611853[source]▶
No, it isn't.

I'm not saying Meta isn't evil - they're a corporation, and all corporations are evil - but you must live in an incredibly narrow-minded and privileged bubble to believe that Meta is categorically more evil than all other evils in the span of human history combined.

Go take a tour of Dachau and look at the ovens and realize what you're claiming. That that pales in comparison to targeted ads.

Just... no.

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4. 1718627440 ◴[19 Jul 25 14:21 UTC] No.44615683{3}[source]▶
Dachau was enabled by the Metas of that time. It needed advertising aka. propaganda to get to this political regime and it needed surveillance to keep people in check and target the people who get a sponsorship for that lifelong vacation.